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Baldacchino CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS VOLUME 103 GLOBAL STREET ECONOMY AND MICRO ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDITED BY SIMON GRIMA University of Malta, Malta OSMAN SIRKECI Giresun University, Turkey KAMURAN ELBEYOĞLU Toros University, Turkey United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China Emerald Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK First edition 2020 Copyright © 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Reprints and permissions service Contact: [email protected] No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. Any opinions expressed in the chapters are those of the authors. Whilst Emerald makes every effort to ensure the quality and accuracy of its content, Emerald makes no representation implied or otherwise, as to the chapters’ suitability and application and disclaims any warranties, express or implied, to their use. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-83909-503-0 (Print) ISBN: 978-1-83909-502-3 (Online) ISBN: 978-1-83909-504-7 (Epub) ISSN: 1569-3759 (Series) CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ix List of Abbreviations xi About the Contributors xiii Foreword xxi Frank Bezzina Preface xxiii Introduction 1 Kamuran Elbeyoğlu and Osman Sirkeci PART I STREET ECONOMY AND MICRO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORETICAL APPROACHES Chapter 1. The Importance of Street Economy from Malta Perspective Justyne Caruana 7 Chapter 2. Actors and Functions of Street Economy Osman Sirkeci 11 Chapter 3. Core Economy and Streets Halim Kasim 29 Chapter 4. Street Economy from Economic, Political, Social and Ecological Perspectives Shahnaz Rafique 39 v vi CONTENTS Chapter 5. Towards an Integration of the Streets and Their Inhabitants Kamuran Elbeyoğlu 45 Chapter 6. The Management of Street Economy Kurtuluş Yılmaz Genç 53 PART II IMPLICATIONS OF STREET ECONOMY Chapter 7. Slightly Above the Syrian Refugees: Media Representation of Street Vendors in Turkey Huriye Toker 63 Chapter 8. Micro Entrepreneurship Is a Macro Step Taken for Development and Democracy Betül Karagöz Yerdelen and Işın Çetin 75 Chapter 9. The Importance of the Smart Manufacturing Design at 4.0 Industrial Vision in Street Economy Merve Yildirim 89 Chapter 10. Rehabilitation of Children Working on the Street Mustafa Sarı 97 PART III STREET ECONOMY CASE STUDIES Chapter 11. Organising the Street Vendors in India: Issues, Challenges and Successes Arbind Singh 103 Chapter 12. The Effects of Street Vendors on the Security and Social Life of the Afghanistan Economy Abbas Karaağaçli 115 Chapter 13. Education and Employment Among the Romani as a Social Category in the Spatial Use of Cities Alper Yağlıdere 123 Chapter 14. Wealth of Streets: Roma and Media Semir Bolat 139 Contents vii Chapter 15. Producer Women’s Neighbourhood Markets Sibel Gelbul 143 Chapter 16. The Story of the Recycling Workers Association Mehmet Göçer 145 Chapter 17. Effect and Importance of Green Logistics Towards Purchase Behaviours of Consumer in E-Commerce Emine Kavas 147 PART IV SUMMING UP Chapter 18. Dignifying of Self-workers in Five Continents Kamuran Elbeyoğlu and Osman Sirkeci 161 Chapter 19. Supplement: The Manifesto of the Global Street Economy Simon Grima, Osman Sirkeci and Kamuran Elbeyoğlu 165 Index 167 This page intentionally left blank LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES FIGURES Fig. 8.1. Share of Informal Employment in Total Employment (Including Agriculture). 78 Fig. 8.2. Share of Informal Employment in Total Employment (Excluding Agriculture). 78 Fig. 8.3. Composition of Informal and Formal Employment. 79 Fig. 8.4. Employees and Entrepreneurs in Informal Employment as a Percentage of Total Employment. 79 Fig. 8.5. Informal Employment Level of Education. 80 Fig. 8.6. Incidence of Time-related Unemployment and the Informal and Formal Nature of Employment. 80 Fig. 8.7. Shares of Informal Employment and Human Development Index Values. 81 Fig. 9.1. Benefits of Street Economists’ Vehicle Design. 92 Fig. 9.2. Designed Vehicles by Merve Yıldırım. 93 TABLES Table 2.1. Global Employment and SE. 17 Table 2.2. Selected Countries and Global SE. 19 Table 2.3. SE Micron Initiatives – Street Vendors. 20 Table 2.4. Share of Recycling Employees in Waste Collection. 21 Table 7.1. The Tone of the News. 68 Table 7.2. The Placement of the News. 69 Table 7.3. The Theme of the News. 69 Table 7.4. Actors in the News. 70 Table 13.1. Gender Distribution. 126 Table 13.2. Place of Birth. 127 Table 13.3. Age Distribution. 127 Table 13.4. Educational Background. 127 Table 13.5. Having Children. 128 Table 13.6. Number of Children. 128 Table 13.7. Number of Household Members. 128 Table 13.8. Marital Status. 129 Table 13.9. Reasons for Dropping Out. 129 Table 13.10. Dropping Out Due to Exclusion and Solutions for Exclusion at School. 130 ix x LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Table 13.11. Non-educational Institutions Applied for the Solution of the Exclusion Problem. 130 Table 13.12. Dropping Out of School in Terms of Educational Stages. 130 Table 13.13. Profession Distribution. 132 Table 13.14. Having an Income-bearing Job within the Last Month. 133 Table 13.15. Distribution of Individuals Having an Income- bearing Job within Last Month. 133 Table 13.16. Average Monthly Income of the Household. 133 Table 13.17. Encouraging Children to Choose Certain Professions in the Context of Ege. 134 Table 13.18. Association of the Romani with Certain Professions. 134 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CEO Chief Executive Officer CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - Republican People’s Party ÇOGEM Child and Youth Center FEMA Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy. GBM General Body Meeting GDP Gross domestic product GLOSEP Global Street Economics Platform GNP Gross national product HDI Human Development Index ICT Information and communications technology ILO International Labor Organisation IMF International Monetary Fund IoT Internet of Things ITCILO International Training Centre of the ILO ITUC International Trade Union Confederation LPG Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation MGNREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act 2011 MHUPA Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation MSMEs Medium, small and micro enterprises NAC National Advisory Council NASVI National Association of Street Vendors of India NCEUS National Commission on Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector NGO Non-governmental organisation NREGA National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 NULM National Urban Livelihood Mission xi xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development RWA Recycling Workers Association SE Street Economy SMEs Small and micro enterprises SVA 2014 Street Vending Act 2014 SWG Self-Workers Global TDU Berlin Turkish German Businessmen Association TESK Turkish Tradesmen and Artisans Confederation TIDAF European Federation of Turkish Businessmen TUIK Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu TURKSTAT Turkish Statistical Institute TVC Town Vending Committee UN United Nations US$/USD US Dollar USA United States of America WIEGO Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Frank Bezzina, PhD, is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy at the University of Malta. He teaches in the fields of management science, decision modelling, research methodology and evidence-based manage- ment and has a keen interest on investing phenomena in the organisational sci- ences. In 2012, one of his articles received the